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Founding studios
ArtSource exists because an interior designer said art sourcing needed a modern approach. Rather than hunt for a piece that happens to suit the scheme, you give us the scheme and the piece is made in those colours. That much works today. What it should become next is a question for people who specify art for a living, so we are opening a small founding group of studios to answer it.
Thirty minutes on how you source and specify art today, and your read on the six decisions below. After that, we come back to you as those decisions get made, and you tell us where we have it wrong. If you have a live project you are willing to use as a test case, better again, though it is not a condition.
01
The colour studio takes a hex value today. You work from Benjamin Moore, Sherwin-Williams and Farrow & Ball chips. Should we take the code and derive the palette from it?
02
Our breaks start at ten of one order. Does a flat net rate per project fit how a studio actually buys, or are volume breaks right and the minimum is simply too high?
03
Project boards and a print view already exist. What does a sheet need before it can go in front of a client: your logo, your markup, our pricing hidden, a spec sheet, a room mockup?
04
Paper and canvas are printed inside Canada, so those orders cross no border. Framed prints come from our US hub, which means they do. Is a Canadian framer worth adding, or do you frame locally anyway?
05
Purchase order numbers, deposit and balance, net terms, and whether one consolidated delivery to site beats shipping each piece as it is made.
06
Which sizes go on a drawing, and how often does a wall need something our size ladder does not offer?
Small residential or hospitality studios that own sourcing and procurement rather than handing it to a consultant, and that care what goes on the wall at the end. Canada first, because paper and canvas are printed inside the country and the border stays out of the delivery. UK and US studios are welcome too.
If you are buying today and want prices rather than a conversation, the trade price list is the faster route.
The group is deliberately small, and it closes once it is full.